The first anniversary of 6EQUJ5's last post on here is just four days away, his insightful debates on the cosmos are a big miss, I'd love to hear his take on this new discovery. A student called Alexia Lopez from Lancaster University has just identified a massive planetary ring with a diameter of 1.3bn light years. It's a discovery of such significance that it has forced astronomers to tear up all their thinking regarding the formation and scale of planetary structures that are out there. To put this discovery into perspective, the "Big Ring" (as it has been named) is over 9bn light years away from earth, so it is impossible to see light emitting from any of the planets within it. However, if it were possible to observe it, so colossal is the size of it that the width would span a row of 15 full moons in our sky. It's feasible that even this could be dwarfed by future discoveries.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...f-the-universe